Meet six young women who are turning science into sustainability solutions
SOUTH Africa’s pulp and paper sector has been opening doors for a growing cohort of young women who apply science and engineering to making...
The Butterfly Effect: How Sappi’s sustainability vision protects biodiversity
The Butterfly Effect: How Sappi’s sustainability vision protects biodiversity
By Adrian Ephraim
In the mist-shrouded forests of KwaZulu-Natal, a creature no bigger than a thumbnail carries...
WESSA & Century City: First Green Key-Certified Conference Venue in Africa
WESSA & Century City: First Green Key-Certified Conference Venue in Africa
The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa, WESSA and Century City Conference Centre...
Nedbank to decarbonise 26 branches with Growthpoint’s pioneering renewable energy certificates for tenants
Nedbank to decarbonise 26 branches with Growthpoint’s pioneering renewable energy certificates for tenants
Nedbank Group Limited has become one of the first businesses in South...
Sustainability has become South Africa’s next hospitality benchmark
Sustainability has become South Africa’s next hospitality benchmark
With water scarcity, rising energy costs and increasingly climate-conscious travellers shaping the Southern African hospitality landscape, the...
Carbon budgets raise urgency of company plans to reduce emissions
Carbon budgets raise urgency of company plans to reduce emissions
South Africa has taken an important step towards meeting its carbon reduction commitments under the...
Driving Cape Town’s tourism economy with sustainability at the core
To mark this year’s Tourism Day theme of ‘Tourism and Sustainable Transformation’, Alderman James Vos, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, joined...
Celebrating cross-cutting green economy solutions with 2025 FNF GreenPitch Challenge winners
Celebrating cross-cutting green economy solutions with 2025 FNF GreenPitch Challenge winners
Peco Power (pre-growth) and OmniTek (early-stage start-up) are the respective category winners of the 2025 FNF GreenPitch Challenge,...
Green building: Key to a low carbon future
Green building: Key to a low carbon future
By Diane Silcock
THE Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024/2025 published by the UN Environment Programme...
Turning Wastewater into Gold: ARC Researchers’ Biohydrogen Quest for Sustainable Agro-Processing
Turning Wastewater into Gold: ARC Researchers’ Biohydrogen Quest for Sustainable Agro-Processing
- By Zikhona Buyeye and Primrose Magama
ARC-Natural Resources and Engineering
South Africa’s agro-processing sector is...
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